Unit 7A

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1. READING AND LISTENING






· Meet the parents

(This info was taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Parents)

Directed by:
Jay Roach



PLOT:
Gaylord "Greg" Focker (Ben Stiller) is a nurse living in Chicago. He intends to propose to his girlfriend Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo), but his plan is disrupted when he learns that Pam's sister's fiance had asked Pam's father for permission before proposing. Greg and Pam travel to Pam's parents' house to attend Pam's sister's wedding. Greg hopes to propose to Pam in front of her family after receiving her father's permission. But this plan is put on hold when the airline loses his luggage, including the engagement ring.
At the Byrnes' home on Long Island, Greg meets Pam's father Jack (Robert De Niro), mother Dina (Blythe Danner) and their beloved cat Mr. Jinx. Jack takes an instant dislike to Greg and openly criticizes him for his choice of career as a male nurse and whatever else he sees as a difference between Greg and the Byrnes family. Greg tries to impress Jack, but his efforts fail completely. Greg becomes even more uncomfortable after he receives an impromptu lie detector test from Jack and later learns from Pam that her father is a retired CIA counterintelligence officer.
Meeting the rest of Pam's family and friends, Greg still feels like an outsider. Despite efforts to impress the family, Greg's inadvertent actions make him an easy target for ridicule and anger: He accidentally breaks Pam's sister's nose during a water volleyball mishap; uses a malfunctioning toilet that floods the Byrnes' back yard with sewage; sets the wedding altar on fire and inadvertently leads Jack to think he is a marijuana user. Later, Greg loses Jinx and replaces him with a stray whose tail he spray paints to make him look like Mr. Jinx. The stray cat trashes the house, and the Byrnes' arrive at the scene.
By now, the entire Byrnes family, including Pam, agrees that it is best for Greg to leave. Unwillingly, Greg goes to the airport where he is detained by airport security. Back at the Byrnes household, Jack tries to convince his wife and Pam that Greg would be an unsuitable husband. Upon receiving retribution from both his wife and Pam, Jack realizes that Pam truly loves Greg. Jack rushes to the airport, convinces airport security to release Greg and brings him back to the Byrnes household.
Greg proposes to Pam. She accepts, and her parents agree that they should now meet Greg's parents. After Debbie's wedding, Jack views footage of Greg recorded by hidden cameras that he had placed strategically around their house.



CAST:



SOUNDTRACK:
The original motion picture soundtrack for Meet the Parents was released on September 26, 2000 on the DreamWorks Records record label. The soundtrack features 14 original compositions by Randy Newman as well as additional tracks by Bobby Womack, Lee Dorsey, and Dr. John and a hidden bonus track. Newman's original song "A Fool in Love" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song—Newman's 14th Oscar nomination —at the 73rd Academy Awards but it ultimately lost to Bob Dylan's "Things Have Changed" for Wonder Boys. For the same song, Newman also won the 16th Annual ASCAP Film & Television Music Award in the Top Box Office Films category and was nominated at the 5th Golden Satellite Awards in the Original Song category. Dan Goldwasser, in his review of the soundtrack for SoundtrackNet, gave credit to Newman and the soundtrack for doing "an excellent job keeping the humor level high."



AWARDS:
Wins* People's Choice Awards (2001)
Nominations* 58th Golden Globe Awards



· WikiHow


There is a wiki in English: http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
And a wiki in Spanish: http://es.wikihow.com/Portada

It is a website where anyone can add information to and it offers help and advice on how to do thousands of different things (anything from how to delete your Facebook account to how to make somebody fall in love with you).





2. GRAMMAR


· Uses of the infinitive with to


There are verbs which are followed by a verb with the infinitive to:
1. SOME VERBS (decide, forget, help ...)+ TO+ INFINITIVE

agree to
 She agreed to come with them.

decide to
 He decided to send the letter.
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forget to
 Don't forget to clean the kitchen before you leave.
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help to
 I'll help you to do the homework.
(It can be used with and without to: I'll help you do the homework.)
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hope to
 We hope to finish on time.
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learn to
 They are learning to play the piano.
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need to
 She doesn't need to buy this device. The computer already has it inside.
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offer to
 He offered to take me to the hospital.
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plan to
 They are planning to celebrate a big party for her birthday.
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pretend to
 He pretended to be rich, but he was broke.
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promise to
 He promised to call me later.
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remember to
 Remember to buy the cake for her party.
(= remember to do something later)
 remember -ing
 Do you remember meeting him last year?
(= remember something after it happened)
start to
 He started to sing when the teacher was still talking.
It started to rain. (no difference in meaning)
 start -ing(is more common when we talk abouta habit or a longeractivity)
 I started reading Tom Sawyer's book last week.
I started working here in 1998.
When did you start playing the piano?
It started raining. (no difference in meaning)
try to
 I'm trying to find a job, but it's very hard with the crisis.
(=to attent to do or accomplish)
 try -ing
 Why don't you try doing yoga?
(= experiment with something)
want to
 I want to go to the party.
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would like to
 I'd like to buy a new TV.
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The negative infinitive is not to + verb: Try not to be late tomorrow. / Promise not to arrive late.



2. ADJECTIVE + TO+ INFINITIVE
It isn't easy to find a job.
Nice to meet you.
It's very difficult to read his writing.
Be careful not to stay in the sun too long.
The recipe is simple to follow.


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3. INFINITIVE OF PURPOSE:VERB + TO + INFINITIVETo say why you do something:(only to express a positive reason)
I came to this school to learn English. NOT for learn English.
I went to the cinema to see Madagascar. NOT for to see.

· The infinitive of purpose is only used to express a positive reason.
· To express a negative reason we use:
in order not to
 We took a taxi in order not to be late.
 NOT We took a taxi not to be late.
so as not to
 We took a taxi so as not to be late
 NOT We took a taxi not to be late.

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4. QUESTION WORD + TO + INFINITIVE:
(who / what / how / where)
The rules don't specity who to speak to in case of an emergency.
I don´t know what to say.
He didn't tell me how to turn off the TV.
She doesn't know where to put the table.







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